Even a one-hit wonder has a certain air of glamour and celebrity (a hit’s a hit even if there’s only one of them, after all), but Norman Greenbaum wasn’t exactly living on Easy Street after the ...

If you were a kid at the tail-end of the 1960s in 1969, you probably heard the following three one-hit wonders at least a few times growing up. These songs were all over the radio for a hot minute.

My cabinet of stored things — my brain — reminded me today of a 1969 number one hit, “2525.” Famously, the song made Zager and Evans the ultimate one-hit wonder, ...